Lifson: DNC lawyers say Joseph Mifsud, who set up Papadopoulos and had close ties to Russia, may be dead

“‘Dead men tell no tales’ is the motto of ruthless and bloodthirsty miscreants throughout history. And if the court papers filed by lawyers for the Democratic National Committee are correct, we will never hear what London-based Professor Joseph Mifsud had to say about how and why he set up George Papadopoulos with the information that Russia had ‘dirt’ on the Hillary Clinton campaign. […] We may never know why Mifsud took it upon himself to set up Papadopoulos with information that became the trigger for the FBI counterintelligence investigation called Crossfire Hurricane, which led to the Mueller probe.”

Dinan: Assaults on ICE, Border Patrol surge as illegal immigrants get more violent

“Assaults on ICE agents reached a decade high in 2017, and assaults on Border Patrol agents have also surged in recent years, according to new government numbers that seem to back up agents’ claims that illegal immigrants are increasingly looking to fight rather than flee. […] Prosecutors, meanwhile, often refuse to bring charges or win cases against the perpetrators, the audit found.”